by Morley Evans
Has Zionism hijacked Judaism? Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro says, no. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. Zionism is not a modern version of Judaism. Zionism is not a branch of Judaism. Rabbi Shapiro raises a few points.
Jews are people whose religion is Judaism. Jews are not a race. There are Chinese Jews, African Jews, Polish Jews, Russian Jews, American Jews, Canadian Jews, Agentinian Jews, and German Jews. There are Iranian Jews! Their religion is Judaism. Their country is not "Israel."
Zionists, especially Jewish Zionists, fundamentally hate Jews and what Jews are. Jews turn the other cheek. Jews are scholarly. Zionists would "fight to the last man." Zionists made up the fable of Masada which is used to indoctrinate IDF recruits. Jewish Zionists are the true self-hating Jews. Zionists are real anti-Semites.
Zionists want to be strong and "manly". They incorporated the superman (übermensch) of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche into Zionism. Zionists think Jews are weak. Zionists hate weakness. Zionists hate the "old Jews". Zionists imagine they are the "new Jews". These comics by American cartoonist, Eli Valley, tell it all. Abe Foxman thinks they are "anti-Semitic". Zionism is a confused mess.
"What is important is not what God promised us [Jews]. What is important is what we [Jews] promised God."
Zionists got the idea from Protestant Christians that Christ would return when the Jews were gathered, when they returned to the Holy Land, and when they rebuilt the Temple. These "fundamentalist" Christians cooked up this idea hundreds of years before Theodor Herzl who got this idea from them.
"As a Jew, Israel has nothing to do with me. Once we break the centralization that claims all Jews are citizens of "Israel" Zionism is defeated," says Rabbi Shapiro.
Judaism is thousands of years old. The State of "Israel" is not equivalent to the Vatican. Benjamin Netanyahu is not similar to Pope Francis. Everything related to Zionism was created by Zionists in the 20th century. Everything.
"As a Jew, Israel has nothing to do with me. Once we break the centralization that claims all Jews are citizens of "Israel" Zionism is defeated," says Rabbi Shapiro.
Judaism is thousands of years old. The State of "Israel" is not equivalent to the Vatican. Benjamin Netanyahu is not similar to Pope Francis. Everything related to Zionism was created by Zionists in the 20th century. Everything.
IN THE BIBLE, GOD WARNS THE JEWS WHAT TO EXPECT IF THEY HAVE A KING LIKE OTHER NATIONS.
A READING FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL
Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah, and said to him, “You are old and your sons do not follow in your ways; appoint for us, then, a king to govern us, like other nations.” But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to govern us.” Samuel prayed to the Lord, and the Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. Just as they have done to me, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so also they are doing to you. Now then, listen to their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them, and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.” So Samuel reported all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots. [and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers.]
He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.” But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; they said, “No! but we are determined to have a king over us, so that we also may be like other nations, and that our king may govern us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
[Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.” So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the Lord, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.]
1 SAMUEL 8:4-11 (12-15), 16-20 (11:14-15)
One can see that Zionism and similar ideologies can be found as far back as Moses. The Israelites created the Golden Calf to worship while they were waiting for Moses to return from Mount Sinai. Much later some Jews thought Alexander the Great was the Messiah. Hellenic culture was very popular. The Maccabees resemble today's Zionists who rule "Israel". They were defeated by the Romans who destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jews to the four winds.
One can see that Zionism and similar ideologies can be found as far back as Moses. The Israelites created the Golden Calf to worship while they were waiting for Moses to return from Mount Sinai. Much later some Jews thought Alexander the Great was the Messiah. Hellenic culture was very popular. The Maccabees resemble today's Zionists who rule "Israel". They were defeated by the Romans who destroyed the Temple and scattered the Jews to the four winds.
